Adaptation Strategies and Actions

Strategy:

Promote drought and heat-tolerant species. Forests are likely to experience increased temperature and decreased moisture conditions as the climate changes. Therefore, it is important to promote species that are well adapted to these new conditions.

Action

Promote adapted trees in beech-birch-maple forests

Beech-birch-maple forest. Photo credit: Anthony W. D'Amato

On warmer, drier sites, such as south facing slopes, promote drought tolerant species such as red oak. On cooler, moister sites, such as northern slopes, continue encouraging traditional northern hardwood species such as sugar maple and yellow birch.